[TriLUG] RH8 and Evolution Problem

[Thunder Bear]

On Sunday, October 6, 2002, at 07:15 PM, Matt Wilson wrote:

> Hi.  Yea, so I designed that screen for 6.1.  I welcome any
> constructive comments or mock-ups of a better way to present things.

Actually, I was going to suggest that 6.2 was perhaps the best ever 
release Red Hat put out for many different reasons.  I hear, but 
haven't yet seen, that 8.0 added a feature that was very much needed in 
7.x;  a minimum install option.  I've got the CD's burned, but now just 
need some hardware to try it on.

While I've had some kind and unkind things to say about Red Hat, the 
installer is one area where I've got almost entirely kind words.

My other gripe that was addressed was the pricing.  The cheap box set 
disappeared for awhile, and rumors abound about why we have it back 
again.  Well, for whatever the reason, I'm glad it's back.  If 8.0 
makes it onto any of my regular use boxes, I'll be sure to start buying 
it again.

The standing gripes I have:

1) Bloat.  Starting with 7.0 the distro got really piggy with 
resources, and became fairly useless for my lower end hardware.  Maybe 
the 8.0 distro fixes that, I don't know yet.
2) Portability.  Red Hat made a distro that was well supported on a few 
different platforms.  Sure, maybe it makes the best business sense to 
drop sparc & alpha, but I'm still sad to see them gone since most of my 
boxen are not i386 architecture.  But thanks to guys like spot for 
Aurora, and even that ravenous bugblatter beast in Calgary for OpenBSD.

> IMNSHO we've come a LONG way in usability with the introduction of Red
> Hat Linux 8.0.  Are we all the way there?  No.  There is no GUI
> software that has the perfect interface.

Well, technically OS/2 isn't dead yet.  It is still supported in a few 
large IBM customer sites.

Thunder Bear

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